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AUSTRALIAN RACING. GRAND .NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. WON" BY GUNCAP. (Received HasJt Night, 5.5 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, July 14. The V.R,C jGraaid National Steeplechase meeting opened .ycisterday. Fallowing were the results of the princi.pn'l Ci'dii: js:— Dontagalla Hurdle Race.— Bullawarra 1, Uxhridge 2, Forest Prince 3. Fourteen starters. A great finish. Won by a head. Time, 4min. lo&seas. Pleasant Ways fell , and broke her neck. GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. . Gamcap (Morgan!) ......... 1 United Kingdom (M'eabe) 2 Scrutineer -(Hawkins) ....... 3 The whole of the acceptors started. Nimrod and Guncap were the first to move. Leaving the straight, Nimrod was in the lead, followed Jby FuSlgsnt, TJnapage'e and- Big Bob. .Rounding the Iturn the order was— Niamrod, Gun-cap, Fulgent, Myall,, Jack, limited Kingdom. At the stone wall Nimrod and Quilachill fell, leaving Myall in the lead, from Guncap, United. Kingdom, Fulgent and Vanguard. At the llaisfb jjuimp, Guncap <and United Kingdom were toge'tfher, clear of the field. A Ba/trterifcg finish resulted in a win for Gomcap by half a length. Scrutineer Mas three flengtlis away. JThi?n. came'Bribery'and .Fulgent. Only [Vseven horde's finished, the remainder j falling. Four of the jockeys were 'slightly injured, vanguard swstain[ed 'an injury to his neck. Time, 6 ■man. 28ifSecs— a,.. record for the race. '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10688, 15 July 1912, Page 5
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